Obama's Dissolving Credibility

09-13-2009 • Real Clear Politics

We had our warning during the campaign, we really did. Remember Barack Obama's famous speech on race, back in March of 2008? Obama had spent 20 years listening to the sermons of Jeremiah Wright, full of venomous anti-Americanism and attacks on "white America." Yet when the reverend's rants were revealed to the public, Obama tried to convince us that he just happened to be missing from the pews on any well-documented Sunday, and that the Jeremiah Wright we saw and heard was not the Jeremiah Wright he knew. It was a giant, implausible lie For now, let's just stick to the speech's seven big lies.